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" ATENT CONRAD L. DRIEFER, OF LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

OIGAR=MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,956, dated September 25, 1888.

Application filed March 19, 1888. Serial No. 267,676.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CONRAD L. DRIEFER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of London, in the Province of Onta- -rio, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in the operating mechanism of the machine shown and described in my application, Serial No. 249,130, filed September 8, 1887.

My invention consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, w'herein Figure I is a plan view of the machine constructed according to my present invention. Fig. II is a View looking from one side of the same, and Fig. III is a view looking from the opposite side. Fig. IV is an end view of the machine. Fig. V is a vertical sectional view through the frame which carries the wrapping and finishing rollers.

Referring now to the drawings, in which like references indicate like parts, 1 is the frame of the machine, (which it is not necessary to describe in detail 2, the reciprocating table or frame; 3, the stationary table, and 4 the apron.

The reciprocating table 2 extends through slots 5 in each side of the frame of the machine. The portion of the frame below the slots 5 affords a track for the anti-friction rollers 6 of the reciprocating frame 2 to run upon. This table or frame 2 is given its reciprocating movement by the following mechanism:

7 is a treadle extending the entire length of the machine, and is secured rigidly outside of the frame to a rock-shaft, 8, journaled centrally in the frame of the machine near its bottom. This treadle has an upwardly-extending bracket, 9, which is connected by a link, 10, with a crank-wheel, 11, mounted on a horizontal shaft, 12, journaled near the center of the frame of the machine. The other end of the machine.

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of the frame of the machine, near the crankwheel 11, is apinion, 14, engaging a large cogwheel, 15, fixed to a horizontal shaft, 16, journaled in the frame toward the .rear end of the machine. Secured to the shaft 16 by means of a setscrew, 17, passing through its hub 18, is a cam, 19, having a cam-groove, 20, in which plays the anti-friction roller 20 of the bellcrank 21, which is fulcrumed on an inward extension, 22, from the frame of the machine. The long arm ofthis bell-crank 21 is bentbackward at 23 and upward at 24, so that its upper end, 24, will fall quite in the rear of the table 2, which is connected thereto by means of links 25.

The operation of the cam upon the bellcrank is as follows: When the anti-friction roller 20 of the bell-crank is caused to travel in the eccentric portion of the cam-groove 20 by the revolution of the shaft 16, the long arm of the bell'crank will be reeiproeated back and forth; but when-the anti-friction roller travels in that portion of the camgroove which is concentric with the shaft 16 the bell-crank will be at rest, and the intervals of motion and rest of the reciprocating table 2 will correspond tothoseof the bell-crank. Thisintermittinglymoving table 2 permits during the period of rest an operator to place a new filler in the pocket of the apron 4. The apron 1 is secured at its forward end to the under side of the table 3, and at its rearward end it passes over roller 26 of the table 2, and is secured to shaft 27, having a ratchet-wheel, 28, wherewith engages a pawl, 29.

30 is a shaftjournaled near the upper rear end of the frame of the machine, having at each end outside the frame pulleys 31 and 32, respectively.

33 is a lever fulcrumed at 31 intermediately of its ends to the frame of the machine. The rear end of the lever 33 supports, through the medium of a link, 35, a weight, 36, which causes cog-wheel 37, fixed on a shaft, 38, journaled in the lever, to be normally disengaged from a cog-wheel, 39, fixed on shaft 16.

Fixed to the shaft 80, inside of the frame of the machine, is a pulley, 10, over which passes an elastic belt, 41, passing also over a pulley, 42, fixed on shaft 38.

It will be seen that by pressing down on trcadle 43, connected by a rod, 44:, with the front end of the lever 33, the cog-wheel 37 will be caused to engage the cog-wheel 89, (which is supposed to be rotating,) when the belt 41 will be caused to move and revolve pulley on shaft 30.

Then pulley 40 is revolved, motion is communicated through shaft 30 to a belt, 45, passing around either pulley 31 or 32 on the same shaft with pulley 10, which belt also passes around pulley 46, fixed on the shaft of the lower roller of the finishing-rollers, (presently to be described,) thereby communicating motion to the latter.

The arrangement of and the device for separating the upper rollers from the lower roller to admit the cigar-bunch is substantially the same as in my application referred to herein, and hence a short description only thereof is necessary.

47, -18, and 49 are three rollers, )referably having elastic sides and arranged in a triangle and revolving freely in hearings in the frame 50, removably secured to the frame of the machine, so that it may be reversed. The lower roller, 47, is not movable transversely; but the upper rollers, as and 49, are supported in hearings in the lower ends of two concentric slots, 50, formed in the frame 50.

The three rollers are held together by clastie bands 51, which pass around pulleys 52 and 53, respectively, on each end of the shafts 5 1 of the rollers and outside of the frame 50.

55 represents a lever pivoted in hearings in frame 50, and it may be adjusted by pressing the foot on treadle 56, connected through the medium of the rod 57 with an arm, 58, pivoted at 59 to the frame 1, and this arm 58 is in turn connected removably to the hooks at each end of lever 55 by means of link 60.

(31. are the anti'frietion rollers, pivoted in bearings at the lower end of lever 55, and are fitted between the shafts of rollers 18 49 and above roller 41-7, but between the latter and the former, so that when the lever is tilted on either side the anti-friction rollers will engage the shaft on one of the upper rollers and lift this roller away from the lower roller to admit the cigar-bunch with the binder wrapped around it by means of the reciprocating table 2, table 3, and apron 4.

The special construction of my finishingrollers, as well as the tip-forming thimble 62, used in connection therewith, forms the sub ject of a separate application, Serial No. 267,675, filed contemporaneously herewith. \Vhen the rollers are required to be reversed for either right or left wrappers, should the belt which passes around pulley 46 of the lower roller, 47, be running on either pulley 31 or 32, it is only necessary to remove the belt from the pulley on that side of the machine that pulley 46 is nearest, reverse the rollers, and place the belt upon the pulley on the opposite side of the machine.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a cigar-machine, the combination of the lcver33, pivoted intermediately ofits ends and weighted at one end, a trcadle having eou nection therewith at the other end, the wrapper-rollers, a revoluble shaft, pulley 42, carried by the lever, the belt 11, passing around the fixed pulley 23 and aforesaid pulley 4-2, belt-and-pulley connection between the wrap perrollers and said fixed pulley, the cam 19, mounted on the revoluble shaft, the bell-crank 21, operated by said cam, and the buneh'rolling mechanism connected with the bell-crank, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a cigar-machine, the combination of the pivoted lever 33, weighted at one end and having a short shaft, 38, pulley 4-2, and cogwheel :37, mounted on said shaft, a revoluble shaft having a cog-wheel, 39, adapted to be brought into engagement with cog-wheel 37, a treadle having connection with lever and an elastic belt passing around the pulley 23 and pulley 42, substantially as set forth.

CON 1A1) L. DRTEFER.

YVitnesses:

l). .l. BNIZNEH, PAUL lj-I. Coon. 

